Writing

TCA’s spring program
2/22/2008 9:40:41 PM by: Elsi

So this evening Vicki and I drove an hour south to attend the elementary school's spring program at Truth Christian Academy in Denver, where I volunteer. It was a delight!
The preschoolers sang and signed "Jesus Loves Me" and "Jesus Loves the Little Children." Watching two-year-old Jade work her way through the sign for Jesus was worth the drive! The Jesus sign is middle finger to the palm of the opposite hand, then that middle finger to the palm of the first hand, symbolizing the nail marks. Delightful!
Then the plays, which I wrote: "Lottie Moon, Chinese Missionary" was performed by the K-1 class, in genuine Chinese outfits provided by the church where my youth group is. "John Bunyan, Author of Pilgrim's Progress" was the 2nd and 3rd graders, complete with Bunyan's blind daughter delivering hot soup for lunch, and a yard full of prisoners listening to excerpts from the manuscript. The last play was the 4th and 5th graders showing the life and death of Jim Elliot and Nate Saint, the martyred missionaries to Ecuador depicted in End of the Spear. They did a fine job!
The program ended with each class doing a song with color-coded bells, and the entire school singing "You Are My Hiding Place" as a round. Finally, the parents got to try the bells, also.
It was wonderful, exhausting, encouraging, spiritually sensitive, and—hallelujah!—over!

Comments

2/24/2008 5:37:34 AM

"Divine" would be a bit of an overstatement, but it sure was fun!

Elsi,

2/23/2008 11:20:23 PM

Could they bring that show 'on the road' to Oregon? Just kidding, but it sounds divine!